Uma Gupta Wiki – Uma Gupta Bio
Uma Gupta, a bullied teenager who performed in a choir alongside Ariana Grande after the Manchester Arena terror attack took her own life by jumping in front of a train, an inquest has heard.
She left a friend’s party upset in March 2019 before heading to East Didsbury railway station, where she died.
Age
She was 14 years old.
Uma Gupta Suicide
On the night of her death, she left a party at a friend’s house after becoming upset and saying she wanted to ‘kill herself’.
She told friends her mum was going to pick her up but instead she walked to East Didsbury station.
Education
Uma, a pupil at Parrs Wood High School in East Didsbury.
Performance
In the months before she died, she made numerous entries expressing her unhappiness and desire to take her own life.
One entry, from October 10, 2018, read: “Don’t be upset. I wasn’t happy and things weren’t going to change.
“Just imagine I was never here.
“I love my family and friends. I planned this for ages.”
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In a statement, Uma’s parents said: “Uma was always the life and soul of the party and didn’t struggle to make friends.
“She loved life and will be missed by everyone. She lit up a room whenever she walked in. The family home is not the same since she died. It’s very quiet.”
Parents Statement
In a statement, Uma’s parents said: “Uma was always the life and soul of the party and didn’t struggle to make friends.
“She loved life and will be missed by everyone. She lit up a room whenever she walked in. The family home is not the same since she died. It’s very quiet.”
As she left home on the night she died Uma’s parents told her ‘how beautiful she looked’.
“She seemed happy”, they said.
But at the party witnesses say Uma’s mood changed.
Inquest
The inquest at Manchester coroners court heard Uma, a pupil at Parrs Wood High in Didsbury, was being bullied at school and kept a secret diary, which was only discovered after her death.
Manchester Coroner’s Court heard how a bully had threatened to stab Uma at Parrs Wood High School in Manchester.
The inquest heard Uma, from Didsbury, was upset by the suicide of a distant relative in September 2018.
In the months after his death, she researched suicide methods online.
In November 2018 Uma’s family began to notice a change in her mood, saying she was often ‘low and withdrawn’.
On December 21, that year, following a party at a friend’s house, she was taken to Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital by police after being found in the street banging her head against the floor saying she ‘wanted to die’.
During the psychiatric assessment, she revealed she was being bullied at school by a girl who had ‘threatened to stab her’.
Paul Heron, head of learning at Parrs Wood, said the school had been aware of the bullying and had taken several steps to tackle it, including the exclusion of the bully.
